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Chapter 8
Blue plasma burst flew all around as they approached the enemy strong point. A few of his men had been forced to abandon their helmets because of this primitive but effective plasma burst. The blast if a frontal hit occurred would burn the eye lenses rendering them useless. A few snipers were out there doing an effective job of annoying the living hell out of him by stalling his companies advance to link up with legion forces.
His scout units where performing counter sniper roles and had managed to take out a few, but these centauri had a few good snipers, Pollux would give them that much. "Scout squad long shot tracking two of the enemy snipers, one in a tower the other hidden in some rubble. They will be eliminated in sixty seconds" the voice of the veteran scout sergeant erupted in a quite controlled tone. He was by far the best shot in the company.
Scout squad long shot was concealed on top of a flat roof about thirty meters from the rest of the company who were pinned down in the alley way. His two best young scouts, who would soon be ready for advancement in a few months, had narrowed down the locations of two enemy snipers. They just need them to make a mistake to take them out.
In the tower the xenos sniper was peering out looking out for any enemy. So far he had remained undetected thanks to his specialized silencer sniper rifle. No enemy had spotted him and he needed to dispatch another yellow plated invader. There one of those with the heavy automatic weapon would be a good target, now just to rise a bit for the shot. Friendly forces on the ground had just been cut to ribbons.
At the proper height he began to move the weapon up, zeroing his crosshairs on the target, eyes gazed weapon set to fire.
Burning
Why was his shoulder burning, just after the burning he was thrown sideways and hit the wall? The pain in his shoulder growing, looking at he saw he had been hit. The burning spread and started losing feeling from his arms spreading everywhere. It took a mere twenty or seconds before he couldn't move and another ten seconds to die.
"Kill confirmed." One of the scout spotters silently stated. He was a bit younger and had two years left if he didn't have any issues with the surgeries.
The xenos in the rubble had no idea about the death of his comrade, for they turned off all communication devices. It became apparent to them that it was giving away some of the emperors forces.
He breathed in slowly, his body barely moving. It was too much as a round soon went through his left side, puncturing through his left lung, scratching both hearts and out the other lung, finally exiting out the right side and making a bloody mess all of the rubble. It was over so quick that he never even knew it happened. Lucky for him as the pain would have been excruciating.
He nodded to the sergeant and they moved out, using their advanced physiology and jumped to the next roof tops. "All enemy snipers eliminated, long shot advancing to new OP (observation point)."
"As always brother-sergeant outstanding work "He said." All right let's keep moving, need to head North West and find these mortar sites." His men obeyed and advanced.
"Brother-captain." The cold stoic voice of his Primarch broke through on the comm bead in his ear.
"Yes my Primarch?" Thanks to his training and experience he could listen and lead his men at the same time.
"If you are done playing bloody cat and mouse games with the snipers would you mind hurrying up and removing those mortar sites? Archimedes and his company cannot move the civilians till you do so?" His wasn't angry simply but the intended haste of his tone was all too clear.
"Aye lord we are moving, objective will be reached momentarily." Switching the comm to the whole company, "sixth company increase speed the Primarch says hurry up. Lord Dorn we carry out your will."
"Ha-ha very good Pollux, I am taking the main palace now, Dorn out."
Another ten to fifteen minutes go by without incident.
They are moving though what looks like a market, when the scouts report in.
"Brother Captain we have eyes on the mortar site, seven tubes are set up and they still have a large ammunition stack available. We… wait we see the supply train for the mortars request permission to take it out. Sending mortar location details to you." Pressing the button sending the recording his visor made to the captain.
It takes him less than ten seconds to take it all in and decide, "Permission granted good hunting, Assault squad hammer move up behind the building on the right. Tactical squad rough necks move up through the alleys and fire three rounds per on the mortars. Then allow hammer squad to jump in and finish them."
The affirmatives come in quickly as each squad moves to position the rest move to pull security or to other cover.
Twenty seconds and then the distinctive bolter BANG, BANG, BANG barks out and silences several of the mortars crews.
A loud continuous thumping noise erupts as the assault squad takes to the sky and then rains death upon the rest of the mortar crew. Only one centauri survives the assault when the marines land, he tries to surrender but is shot in the head by squad hammers sergeant. The smoke from his bolter rises lazily as the centauri's body slumps to the ground. "Mortar site silenced captain."
The two squads set up 360 degree security and awaited the arrival of the remainder of the company, who would be arriving few seconds later.
He felt something, something in the pit of his stomach. Felt like what the mortals called fear. That must be it human mortals close by. "Brother-Captain we have human civilians close by I can feel the fear from them. One of the buildings on the east side, I can't pinpoint it some type of interference."
"Very well brother-librarian, squads anvil check those buildings."
"Acknowledge" the nine man squad split up three went into each building and the remaining three waited outside."
Inside the right building
They moved quickly and carefully to avoid accidentally stepping on children. They looked into every room and where about to clear out when one step on something that gave way. Stopping and looking down he pulled a rub out of the way to reveal a large door on the floor. Looking to his squad mates, who confirmed and trained their bolters on the door, as he ripped it open.
The door came off with little effort to reveal a low lit, passageway. He dropped in first and saw a sickening sight. Two rows about twenty meters long of cages and inside were humans. They all looked sick or injured and wouldn't last long. He immediately started to yank open locks on the cages as his brothers came down.
"Brothers captain we found two dozen civilians, all either injured or ill, looks like they need medicae attention ASAP (as soon as possible)."
"Confirmed brother I am on the way" Apothecarian Gundy ran into the building to see what aid he could offer.
Three minutes go by "Brother-captain we need to evac them to one of the hospital ships now, or they will die before the days end. I have seen anything like this since the pache campaign." All the marines who where there remembered that righteous crusade.
"Lord dorn, mortar position silenced, also we found two dozen civilians in need of medevac ASAP. Apothecary compares to atrocities on pache."
The anger on his voice was notable "Roger a thunderbird is on its way, have your forces set up a sanctuary. Any civilians we find will be escorted to you. Keep your scouts on patrol. I don't want to be surprised, Dorn out." Weapons fire could be heard in the back ground, a mixture of plasma weapons and bolters.
An hour later the first units began to arrive with the civilians. All types men, women, and children. Some with wounds others fine, some appearing ill. All had hope in their eyes as well as awe at the giant yellow warriors who saved them. By the day's end medevac flights where happening every half hour to get the sick and wounded out.
Fifth company was setting up another sanctuary on the southern side of the city a good twenty miles away. From his position captain Pollux could see the secondary sanctuary and the assault on the palace. Everything appeared to be going to plan, and that worried him.
As he turned to go down to check on the civilians the bright flash blotted out everything else, the explosive boom hit a few seconds later and debris flew into the air. Stopping in his tracks he turned and saw a sight that made his blood boil. The second sanctuary being run by fifth company was just destroyed. A great and terrible mushroom cloud rose into the sky, signaling a nuclear weapon.
"Captain Fong, come in… Captain Fong…. Any battle brothers from the fifth company come in." He tried for several minutes to get them on the radio.
"This is storm bird fist of heavens, it's gone, and everything is dead." The hollow voice sounded over the radio.
The titan's footsteps made the earth shake for kilometers as it approached the enemy space port. Spitting death out from its powerful plasma cannons and launching missiles in their dozens. Not one shot missed its mark. 100% precision on all volleys, nothing less would have been acceptable to any of the titan legions of mars.
Centauri began to flee in terror at the giant walking death that approached them. It did them no good as two companies of skittari laid in waiting on the other side of the hill. The super enhanced, gene bread and nearly completely removed from humanity even more so than the super human Astarte's, skittari were a deadly foe to any but the best of warriors.